Rep. Bo Mitchell & Rep. Mike Stewart grill Gov. Bill Lee Finance commish Stuart Mcwhorter about a reported 50-60 grant commitments from a $4 MILLION SLUSH FUND TO GET VOUCHERS PASSED.
As Bo reminds McWhorter of a perjury law, Rep. Martin Daniel CUTS OFF his mic.
Rep. Mike Stewart & Rep. Bo Mitchell confront Gov. Bill Lee Tennessee Department of Education commish Penny Schwinn about a no-bid $2 MILLION ClassWallet contract that exceeds the total?allocated for his voucher program, echoing controversy from her past.
Here’s more on Class Wallet: http://www.mommabears.org/blog/whos-in-your-wallet
The extra funding came from a Lamar Alexander-era program intended for teacher bonuses. Yes, taking from teachers to pay for the voucher program.
As Senator Sara Kyle & Senator Brenda Gilmore push for a brief tax holiday for feminine products, Senator Joey Hensley says girls may buy too many, laments $130,000 in lost?— but backed a $40 MILLION tax break for brokers/lawyers.
Hensley was also divorced 4 times, cheated on his wife with his cousin, and got popped for prescribing pills illegally to his family… maybe not the guy to judge what women need?
Rep. John Ray Clemmons pushes his bill to stop schools from punishing kids to force parents to pay meal debt.
GOP Reps Terri Lynn Weaver & Jerry Sexton struggle with it, while Rep Ragan wants to make meal debt a child abuse/DCS issue.
WATCH Rep. Jerry Sexton – who said “we all make mistakes” about a child sex abuser and a KKK Grand Wizard – press candidates to ignore potential harm caused to cash-strapped public schools.
“That ? belongs to those parents, not traditional public schools.”
The GOP disdain for public schools on full display. This logic will further devastate them. www.TNHoller.com
“Let’s not channel MLK, who was about nonviolence, in the same sentence as a rally for WEAPONS OF DEATH.”
Rep. Antonio Parkinson & Rep. Mitchell respond as GOP Caucus leader Jeremy Faison invokes MLK & calls AR-15’s “weapons of LIFE” as he honors Richmond’s anti-gun safety law rally.
Rep. Larry Miller was also booed, in a break from House decorum.
And Rep. Andy Holt outrageously wondered why we don’t see guns being a problem with 393 million of them in circulation in the USA.
Watch Rep. Micah Van Huss tells us why he’s pushing his taxpayer money-wasting resolution to label CNN & Washington Post “FAKE NEWS” — despite the fact that he once famously cited The Onion in a committee hearing. ?
Rick Herron of Sunrise Movement – Nashville talks about how the group got started, why a Green New Deal is essential, and says if elected officials don’t start listening to the science and keep denying the reality of climate change, “We’re gonna throw you out.”
REPUBLICAN REP. Kent Calfee says “There’s a bill to repeal VOUCHERS… because there was every kind of DIRTY TRICK IN THE BOOK — BRIBES, THREATS, everything else to get it passed.”
Calfee lets loose on how Disgraced former Speaker Glen Casada & Gov Bill Lee got Lee’s public school-harming vouchers through.?
“WE STAND WITH BRITTANY!”
VIDEO of a protest at Lipscomb after John Rich of Big & Rich caused a firestorm over the mention of “white privilege” in class & Dean Brittany Paschall’s racially tough (but true) writings.
Rich: “Racism doesn’t exist at LU.”
Students: “Lie.”